Методические рекомендации к семинарам по теоретической грамматике английского языка. Тивьяева И.В. - 27 стр.

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Questions for discussion

1. What problems underlie the definition of the sentence? What is the

difference between the phrase and the sentence, the sentence and a

combination of sentences?

2. What properties does the sentence possess?

3. What criteria are taken into account when sentences are differentiated as

simple/composite, one-member/two-member, etc.?

4. What is the difference between elliptical and one-member sentences?

5. What communicative types of sentences are traditionally differentiated?

6. What classification of sentences was proposed by prof. Pocheptsov? What

principle is it based on?

Practice Assignment

I. Define whether the structures in italics are one-member or elliptical sentences.

State the type of one-member sentences.

1. Virgins of the school of Rafael, Virgins of the school of Guido Reni,

landscapes of the school of Zuccarelli, ruins of the school of Pannini. (W. S.

Maugham)

2. "Glad to hear it." (Th. Dreiser)

3. I don't write. Not such a fool. (J. Galsworthy)

4. To be alive! To have youth and the world before one. (Th. Dreiser)

5. Living room in the house of Philip Phillimore. (L. Mitchell)

6. Looks to me for all the world like an alf-tame leopard. (J. Galsworthy)

7. A scandal! A possible scandal! (J. Galsworthy)

8. She could think of him now with indifference. She loved him no longer. Oh,

the relief and the sense of humiliation! (W. S. Maugham)

9. To receive so flattering an invitation! To have her company so warmly

solicited! (J. Austen)

10. Soames stole a glance. No movement in his wife's face. (J. Galsworthy)

11. “Had an autopsy. Took longer than I figured.” (A. Hailey)

12. She was going to bed at last. Ah! Joy and pleasant dreams! (J. Galsworthy)